I am afraid my computer screen is only a mere 12 x 18" in height and
width..... when your figure drawing of 7 x 3.5 feet said click here to
enlarge I thought it would materialise! It is so well done..... what
back ground are you putting behind her?

Are you intending to make it into a giant wood block print? by the
time you inked up one end it would be dry by the time you reached the
other end..... and you'd need a jig to hold the paper. What about a
10 block print? Now there's a challenge!!

I have sent watercolor post cards using the watercolor postcards you
can buy (I don't remember what brand, and searching on google it
seems that every paper company makes them). I haven't seen any of the
postcards after mailing, but nobody has complained that they had
gotten mangled - the ones I had were pretty thick and stiff. I do not
know how well they would print, but may be a better surface than
cardstock.

Jan Telfer wrote:
>Gee Mike, I am afraid my computer screen is only a mere 12 x 18" in height
>and width..... when your figure drawing of 7 x 3.5 feet said click here to
>enlarge I thought it would materialise! It is so well done..... what back
>ground are you putting behind her?
>Are you intending to make it into a giant wood block print? by the time
>you inked up one end it would be dry by the time you reached the other
>end..... and you'd need a jig to hold the paper. What about a 10 block
>print? Now there's a
>challenge!!
>http://mlyon.com/blog/2006/04/figure-drawing-7-x-375-feet-complete.html

Dear Jan,

Thanks for looking -- the 'background' is just paper and no ink -- the
image you looked at is a photograph of the finished drawing -- the edges of
the photo are the edges of the paper, so what you saw is pretty much
exactly what it looks like. I took it over to Dolphin Gallery for framing,
and it was thrilling to have seven or eight of the gallery people leaning
over it and oooing and ahhhing -- felt great, of course -- it's so big, and
the ink lines are so fine (and so many of them -- miles and miles of
extra-fine rolling writer lines) -- it really is very cool!

That image won't become a woodcut. I am working on several woodcuts at the
moment -- a special collaborative project to get out of the way before I
can begin cutting 24 blocks for a gigantic shades-of-blue
nude-reclining-on-messy-bed -- larger than life on 77x42 inch paper with
the printed image almost coming to the edges. It'd be so much cheaper to
make this a reduction print, but my paper would spoil long before I could
reduce the block 24 times! So each color layer will come from its own
individually carved block, with all blocks completed prior to pulling the
first print. The blocks are 4x8 foot sheets of plywood, cherry
veneered. About $700 in wood, so you can see that my confidence (or my
idiocy) is growing :)! If you're interested in seeing a similarly large
print (12 block reduction print) being made, there's a short movie I made
for Rob Viana who asked about how I inked such large blocks (moku-hanga
style) here: http://mlyon.com/blog/2006/02/movie-aspen-grove-pigment-application.html

Thanks for the nice note and warm greetings from Kansas City to down-under!

-- Mike

PS my main computer at the studio (8 years old -- I guess that's about 100
in computer years) became deathly ill yesterday and will have to be
replaced -- MAY be able to recover many of my files in a couple of weeks
when the new one arrives but in the meantime, I'm feeling pretty UGLY!

TUESDAY 8/15:
9 am: gather at studio
10 am: head for McClains
We will be guests at McClain's Printmaking Supplies where you may
purchase or lust for whatever you want.
Afternoon: return to studio and try all your new goodies
Dinner on your own

WEDNESDAY 8/16:
9 am: gather at studio
morning demo:
How to do a puzzle print (comedy routine by the infamous Maria Arango)
afternoon: work independently
Break for dinner (we might order out - this dinner is not incl. in the
reg. fee)
Evening:
Solar print demo by Barbara Mason (with story telling)

THURSDAY 8/17:
9 am: gather at studio
work in studio (or visit)
11 am: lunch
1pm:
Visit Gilkey Print Center in the Portland Art Museum
An Exhibition at the museum will be: Through Rustling Grasses: Nature
in the Japanese Print. check it out at: http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/asp/special_exhibitions/
exhibitions.asp?exhibitionID=68
After the museum we will stay in Portland and gallery hop, visit Print
Arts NW ( http://www.printartsnw.org ) and have a moderately priced
dinner in the arts district (anyone wishing to stay at the studio and
work can do so, but you will really miss out. If you don't want to
have dinner, or your budget does not allow, we can probably put a sack
lunch together for you).

FRIDAY 8/18:
9am: gather at studio
work until lunch time
Afternoon:
Tool sharpening demo
Dinner at studio
Show and Tell after dinner

SATURDAY 8/19:
Anyone willing to stay one more day: we will leave the studio at 10am
and depart toward the beautiful Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area and
see such wonders as Multnomah Falls, the Vista House, the Columbia
River (of course), have a picnic at one of the beautiful parks along
the way, visit Bonneville Dam and see the fish ladders, hatchery, see
live Sturgeon, you will be duly impressed. Guaranteed.
Dinner at McMenamin's Edgefield. Depending on the number interested we
may be able to reserve a room & order from the menu. Edgefield is the
old Multnomah County Poor Farm which has become a very clever bed and
breakfast with brewery & winery on the premises. They hired many
artists to decorate the building, paint something of the history of the
place on each door, etc. A fun place to visit: http://www.mcmenamins.com

Send Reservations to:

Sharri LaPierre
17002 NE 50th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98686

Mike is working on getting the page up on the site, but his computer is
in the hospital and he can't do this right now. We need a volunteer to
take the reins and do this for us, or wait a couple of weeks for Mike.
We'll let you know as soon as a page is up - meanwhile, you can send
your checks to me right now!! Is that cool, or what?

[Baren] Daily DigestRegarding the cairn, you know that a West Highland White terrier looks just like a Cairn terrior when they put the hair dye on him. I have a Westie and I want to keep him. He is neutered so he is no good for breeding. You could get a dog worth more than that from the pound.